freebsd stable - Mar 2013 - What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

Hi,
I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now
results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work).

I found that I needed to add the following..
Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
EndSection

I am pretty sure this used to be necessary, then wasn't, but now seems
required again.. From what I can see this means a 'startx' with no
config is broken which is a bit of a step backwards.

BTW I have dbus & hald running.

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Daniel O'Connor <darius at
dons.net.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config
now
> results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work).
>
> I found that I needed to add the following..
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
> EndSection
>
> I am pretty sure this used to be necessary, then wasn't, but now seems
> required again.. From what I can see this means a 'startx' with no
config
> is broken which is a bit of a step backwards.
>
> BTW I have dbus & hald running.
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
>
>
On my intel-based systems there is no xorg.conf and on my nVidia-systems
there is one, but it contains only:
 Section "Device"
        Identifier      "nvidia"
        Driver  "nvidia"
        Option  "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "default screen"
        Device "nvidia"
EndSection

so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which version
of xorg you are using.

Does lshal show any inputdevices?

Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment?

Best regards
Andreas

On 17 Mar 2013 12:07, "Daniel O'Connor" <darius at
dons.net.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config
now
results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work).
>
> I found that I needed to add the following..
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
> EndSection
>
> I am pretty sure this used to be necessary, then wasn't, but now seems
required again.. From what I can see this means a 'startx' with no
config
is broken which is a bit of a step backwards.
>
> BTW I have dbus & hald running.
Have you read http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html ?

Chris

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of
Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus:
> Hi,
> I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X
> config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work).
> 
> I found that I needed to add the following..
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
> EndSection
I think general wisdom is that AEI is a Bad Idea for various reasons
that I don't remember, but seemed reasonable when I read them.

However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding
the mouse for me.  Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it
show up working, but that's annoying and stupid (and not an option on
other systems with e.g. PS/2 meece).  I wound up sticking the "other
half" of that oft-cargo-culted incantation:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
EndSection

in my config, and it's worked OK since.  's probably worth a try...


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